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Food Waste Friday / Now You See It (Mould) Now You Don’t

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Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and Food Waste Friday was born. I started participating in October ...

Save A Banana Day / Chocolate ‘Top’ Banana

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The Guardian recently launched their Live Better Campaign. (You may see a certain someone you know being featured over there soon - If you haven't signed up yet click here.) As part of the Live Better Campaign today is: Save A Banana Day Now that sounds like a worthwhile cause to me. Particularly as according to figures from WRAP, 1.4mn bananas are thrown ...

Food Waste Friday / Anything Goes To Make The Save

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Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and Food Waste Friday was born. I started participating in October ...

5 Years On Am I Living Better?

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It dawned on me, last Thursday, I'd reached a milestone. Had I achieved a million hits on Simply Being Mum? No, not quite, although that would be lovely.  It was my 5th anniversary. Of what? Getting married? Moving house? Giving up coffee (unlikely...)? It was the 5th anniversary of choosing to live a family life simply done. ...